We spent an afternoon together with artist Walid Siti while he was working on his new installation (titled the Third Life) in this enchanted garden part of his home in London. While constructing the levels of the Third Life he kindly shared the story of his everlasting relationship with the Malwiya Tower (the minaret of The Great Mosque of Samarra) and his profound interest in mountains. 

Please visit his website and/or Instagram to learn more about his journey, practice and current projects.

And please check out the links below that may be useful for this episode;

Website: https://www.walidsiti.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walidsiti/

The Malwiya Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Samarra

The Troubled Bear and The Palace (trailer) by Walid Siti: https://vimeo.com/405041733

The Tower of Babel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

Oneness by Walid Siti: https://vimeo.com/424480294

Please see https://youtu.be/GRSNNkpxOn0 for the video version of this episode

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CC STATION cover art and intro sound design by Berlin-based artist Zeynep Özkazanç aka zoka @zozkazoz

Breaking a world record of saying "copyright" a thousand times in one podcast - come on in! How to pronounce DAOs? What happens when a judge decides what art is? We talked about conjunctions where art and law meet and dines while mentioning the future of copyright/s. Important note: Oğulcan had to re-record two of his answers as we had an issue with the microphone while recording this episode. Links which may be useful

and more info about this episode can be found in our website : https://collectivecukurcuma.com/2020/05/03/cc-station/

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Conversation with Nicky Broekhuysen

May, 2020

Please visit https://youtu.be/9wbXkwdZrTI for the video version of this episode. Links which may be useful

• Website of Nicky Broekhuysen: https://www.nickybroekhuysen.com/

• Mine Kaplangı, Interview: Nicky Broekhuysen: http://www.artfridge.de/2018/10/interview-nicky-broekhuysen-mk.html

• Jeremy Polacek, From Aura Photos to Automatic Writing, an Artist Plumbs the Abyss Between Belief and Disbelief (Susan Hiller’s Exhibition): http://www.susanhiller.org/PRESS/press_hyperallergic.html

• Tate Britain - William Blake: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/william-blake-artist

• The Gallery of Everything - Medium’s Medium: https://www.gallevery.com/exhibitions/the-mediums-medium1

• Drawing Room - Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist as Medium - https://drawingroom.org.uk/exhibitions/not-without-my-ghosts-the-artist-as-medium

• Fondation Monet (Monet’s House & Garden in Giverny): https://fondation-monet.com/

• Surrealist Automatism (Automatic writing and drawing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_automatism

• Davidson Gallery - The Channeling: http://www.davidsongallery.com/exhibitions/nicky-broekhuysen2

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint

John O'Donohue, The Inner Landscape of Beauty: https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty-aug2017/

Books:

• Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Follow Collective Çukurcuma on https://www.instagram.com/collectivecukurcuma/, https://www.facebook.com/collectivecukurcuma/ and https://twitter.com/ccukurcuma

Sandra Havlicek, Tina Kohlmann and Katharina Schücke are three artists who join their expertise to practice as a dynamic trio. Triangulation is a developmental step which they continuously try to engage in and which requires the flexibility and ability to permanently change roles and perspectives in the rotating triad. This process generates surprise, fun and complexity in conceptual thinking and artistic production. Because three minds engage in the depth of decision making, the process opens up for multilayered facets of developing an idea, approaching it’s concept and producing it’s body. Each experimentation system is specific, improvised and grounded in an elementary matter in it’s time. One afternoon in April 2020 we met with HazMatLab collective for an online nail art session. To learn more about HazMatLab and their work - https://www.hazmatlab.org/Follow HazMatLab at https://www.instagram.com/hazmatlab/Follow Collective Çukurcuma at https://www.instagram.com/collectivecukurcuma/Some links which may be useful:Our upcoming group exhibition: Creating a ‘we’ - https://vimeo.com/382397972HazMatLab De Formal interview: https://www.deformal.com/interviews/2017/8/10/interview-with-hazmatlabBasis Frankfurt: http://basis-frankfurt.de/Artfridge interview: http://www.artfridge.de/2019/04/interview-hazmatlab.html